RE: Bulldog

Managed to track down the Bulldog – she is in the James Watt College in Glasgow , she is complete apart from her outer wings which have been removed to save on storage space , she is to be kept with all her systems operational to be used as a ground training aircraft for the HND in Aeronautical Engineering offered at the college , she is in excellent condition and still in UAS colours , having just been released from storage at Shawbury .

RE: Bulldog

Naw was definately red/white (light grey) upper and lower , seen them before , one of the guys I met at the NCO /CO selection week in 1990 went on to Shawbury to do his EFT and later the rotary wing syllabus and it was the same colour scheme as they ones stored there, I also believe they burnt one of the stored Chipmunks after one of the officers formal dining evenings just for fun , he went on to fly Chinooks from Shawbury then Odiham – I’ll stick to things with wings thank you.

RE: Bulldog

We’ve just come down from Cullen and my mate stays in Findochty , spent some time in Elgin recently as I could remember about 6 years ago there was a scrapyard in town which was full of bits of Buccaneer and other stuff but it’s all gone now !! , is there any scrapyards up there now or have they all been cleared out.Elgin probably has the most interesting ppetrol station in Britain , the Bucc looks like she’s reasonably well cared for . At least up there you’ve plenty interesting aircraft moving about , I live smack halfway between Edinburgh and Glasgow and we never see anything interesting unless something diverts into Turnhouse.I tried to contact the CCO (Corporate Communications Officer !!) at Kinloss as I heard they had found some quite substantial remains of an old Anson out on the airfield somewhere – but I never got a reply. A guy I used to go flying with ,George Brunton, was an instrument fitter on Wessex’s but I don’t know where about he was based . Nice bit of the world to live in .